…when we just have to step outside on the pavement?
Do they grit pavements at all?
I’ve actually just seen a gritter on Whitegate Drive but sweet bejesus – it wasn’t actually gritting. Listening to the radio tells me that we’ve finally run out of rock salt which may well explain it. But does this mean they’re deploying gritters that aren’t gritting, just so that they appear to be doing something?
Good old council cut backs, got to love them.
For anyone out and about tonight I’d give Vicarage Lane a miss – it’s deceptively clear with slushy bits alongside, but it is in fact an ice rink. A slight touch on the brakes at 10mph brings on the ABS so be careful. Whitegate Drive and Devonshire Road are OK for now. Hawes Side Lane and Waterloo Road were OK.
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Do they grit pavements at all?
No. You’d think that they would grit main road pavements, but they don’t (although you might get some rock salt spillage from when the council dares to venture out with gritting vehicles).
That leaves residents to sort the pavements out themselves, using rock salt from the rock salt bins. Thing is, the council don’t say whether or not they allow residents to use the bins themselves, nor do they say where the bins are located – for information, the Blackpool Council website is about as much use as a fucking bikini in this weather.
Could have been prepared, should have been prepared? Certainly, but I doubt senior council workers believe that snow exists, given the dogmatic way in which they all think we’re going to boil ourselves to death through Climate Change.
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Oh, and if anybody wants an example of just how proactive councillors can be on the matter…
http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Councillor-wants-to-buy-own.5952370.jp
Can’t quite see Cllr Peter Callow or Cllr Ian Fowler leading by example, though.
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[...] mentioned yesterday that the Council had run out of grit and this was today confirmed by the Gasjet, with a [...]
St Annes aint great either – the main roads have been gritted but the pavements have not seen much grit, and I wouldn’t know where a single grit bin was. The only “clear” pavement, road, drive I can find is my own – but then I’m from nearer the Pennines so I know at the first snow get all the snow cleared to the side so it can’t impact, freeze and become a suitable venue for Dancing on Ice to start. (I recommend a long handled rubber brush for this purpose – and the car – though if anyone knows of one where the head can’t come off I’d be very interested to know).
The road of course is an ice rink but I have more to do than shovel snow. Maybe all that “Ice Road Truckers” my sibling got me to watch last Christmas is coming in useful – though I could still get mad with the idiot who keeps parking opposite the narrow T junction at the end of the road which because of him is one car wide – if someone skids his car is a goner (good thing) but their’s is too.
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